Pid

Pid is a creative, stylish, retro-flavored platforming adventure game designed to turn everything you know about 2D gameplay upside down. You play as a young boy that gets stranded on an old remote planet. He must fight off a variety of malicious robots bent on stopping him and befriend unlikely allies to shed light on a huge conspiracy that keeps the planet mesmerized and prevents him from ever reaching home.

The core feature in Pid allows players to manipulate a powerful force that can be used to maneuver around the levels in thousands of unique ways. In Pid, two players can experience the adventure together in co-op mode and help one another navigate tricky puzzles.

Latest Articles for Pid

Remember star-studded, pastel-colored platformer Pid? While charming, with a Portal-esque mechanic to boot, many gamers also found it ramped up in difficulty rather quickly, and this seemed to put off a lot of prospective players. If you were one of them, you might be interested to know that Pid has now gotten an easy-mode patch -- star collection is now accessible to players of all stripes. Read More »

Remember the adorable, constellation-studded, tractor-beam-filled trailer we posted for platformer Pid a couple of months ago? Well, now we have a release date and price on hand -- and a handful of new screenshots, too. Read More »

Were you a big fan of those Excursion Funnels from Portal 2? You know, those blue tractor beams that allowed you to float free of dangerous spikes and other calamities? If so then you might want to keep an eye on Pid, an upcoming puzzle platformer from indie developer Might and Delight. Its central gameplay component is the creation of a series of small tractor beams that allows the main character, Kurt, to traverse across a variety of platforms (and avoid being killed by evil robots). Read More »

Features

The Pid Adventure -- Pid is a platform adventure game in which the player is given a rich set of features that he must use and combine to survive in the world. A wide variety of fast paced action, puzzles and precision platforming forces the player to creatively master the tools at hand. Gameplay situations can always be solved in tons of alternative ways and the rich contrast between the different locations challenges the player to adapt to enemies that demands new strategies and methods.

Unique Platforming Moves -- Mastering the use of force manipulation of the environment will turn everything you know about platforming upside down. To top it off, it completely changes the way you maneuver within a 2d world. It's also used to move enemies and objects, deflect bullets, activate machinery and change level layouts.

Travel with a friend -- In coop-mode, players are expected to truly cooperate in order to safely advance through the levels. Both are highly dependent on the other, and even if friendly cooperation is a must, there is plenty of room to wildly compete and test your retro skills against your friends.